Any Quote by Dermot Healy

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

— Jonathan Lethem

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks